Yitzhak Wittenberg

Yitzhak Wittenberg (1907-16 July 1943) was a leader of the United Partisan Organization (FPO) during World War II.

Biography
Yitzhak Wittenberg was born in 1907 in Lithuania, Russian Empire to a family of Litvaks. Wittenberg was rounded up with other Lithuanian Jews into the Vilna Ghetto during World War II, and he became a leader of the United Partisan Organization. Wittenberg led resistance against Nazi Germany, and the Nazis had the Judenrat leader Jacob Gens hand over Wittenberg to the Germans. Gens slipped Wittenberg some cynadie, and on 16 July 1943 Wittenberg killed himself before the Gestapo could interrogate him in prison.